Valentine schmalentine
Ah well. After the usual flowers, chocolates, office duties and Counterstrike, we decided to do something worthwhile last night. Stargazing was the primary agenda, but we were one step short and instead enjoyed the bands at the UP fair.
Since we didn’t have enough budget for the Rex Navarette show (why does Valentine’s Day have to be BEFORE payday?), my officemates (Zeth, Mike, Angge, Mac), my SO and I planned to go to the observatory at UP to look at the stars. Past 8PM, we quit the CS battle and ate dinner at Megamall. Good thing the preem of Close to You (yep!) was already showing, so we were able to avoid the throng of people who were probably shrieking and raving about Sam (but had enough time to walk on the red carpet, di pa kasi nililigpit).
After that, we bought some stuff to eat from Ministop and headed to UP. Past 11, we were at the Sunken Garden and listened to some of the amateur bands from outside the fair venue. We went in about an hour after, just enough for us to catch Moonstar 88, Itchyworms, Sugarfree, Hale and Kamikazee. Met a friend of a friend who’s a friend of another friend, too (shit, am I poor at name retention, but she’s real nice). Fluxx came in just in time to hear his theme song (Hari ng Sablay, yeah). About 2AM, we drove to the observatory, and this kinda spoiled our morning.
We arrived there, finding the guard fast asleep on his chair. He woke up, I guess when he heard the car’s engine. We asked him if we could go stargazing at the observatory (prior to this, Angge and Mike had called to check if there would be a technician that time, the guy on the other line said yes, and told them we can come anytime). To make it short, we waited for how many minutes just to be told something about the unavailability of the telescopes, and of Aparri and Cavite. I must be too whacked out to understand what the guard was saying (in fairness to him, he probably tried to wake the tech up, but to no avail), but there was no point in arguing. We just ended up raising our heads to the direction of the sky and plainly look at it. There. That was stargazing, alright. Then we drove home.
Past 3AM. I was still up, trying to remove the stamp from my arm (what did they use, indelible ink?). After a few scrubs here and there, my wrist went from brown to red. I quit scrubbing, I was too sleepy to do so, too. Besides, I had to wake up the usual time (7:30AM) to get to the office on time. Good thing, I don’t have much to do yet. I’m too bangag to work.
Ah well, This Valentine’s Day was good. Almost as good as that of 3 years ago.
Okay. Now let me concentrate on this Rex Navarette CD…
